Critical Content and Skills

Content Area: Language Arts

Students will know...	Formative Assessment	Students will be able to...	Product Summative Assessment
1. the events currently affecting the Haitian people.	Dialogues:We will have a class discussion about the different event occurring in Haiti.	1. Compare the tragedies in Haiti to current and past events.	Wikispaces: Students ae going to create Wikispaces that will relate to the information they learn about Haiti. They will begin by making a home page and it will include information about the current events in Haiti.
2. how to read news articles.	Observation: I will observe the students and how they react and use the news articles I give them.	2. Make sense of news articles.	Wikispace: Students will continue to learn about Haiti through news articles and they will add to their wikispaces.
3. how to research and write a new article.	Self Assessment: I will have students fill out facts sheets about Haiti.	3. Create their own news articles.	Podcast: Students will be writing a news report and will be pretending they are news anchors and are reporting over the radio.
4. the major religions in Haiti: Catholic, Protestant	Dialogues: Students will talk in groups about the different religions in Haiti.	4.	Wikispaces: Students will be learning about the different religions in Haiti and will creste a wikipage for each of these religions.
5. about the main character of Taste of Salt,	Quizzes: i will have a short quiz to see how much the students have read.	5. Relate to the character from Taste Of Salt.	Blog: Students will create a blog relating to the novel Taste of Salt and will reflect on eahc chapter they read.
6. how to relate their own experiences to the people of Haiti.	Self Assessment: Students will fill out a time line regarding the events in the Taste of Salt.	6. Reflect on the experiences of the people in Haiti.	Blog: Students will reflect on the book as a whole and relate it back to the facts they have learned about Haiti.

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster
GE- Google Earth
N- Noteshare